Quotes About Reinvention

Ice Cube went straight outta Compton to hearing, 'Are we there yet?' Eddie Murphy blew up striding across the stage in a red leather ensemble that would have made Elvis Presley chuckle, yet is probably best known to anyone born in the 21st century as the overly chatty donkey from 'Shrek.'

Reinvention takes place in the middle of the organization, so the first requisite is that there has to be a middle. I'll assume your organization still has one. Now pour in some slack, increase safety, and take steps to break down managerial isolation. Viola, the formula for middle-of-the-hierarchy reinvention.

Slackless organizations tend to be authoritarian. When efficiency is the principal goal, decision making can't be distributed. It has to be in the hands of one person (or a few), with everyone else taking direction without question and acting quickly to carry out orders. This is a fine formula for getting a lot done, but a dismal way to encourage reinvention and learning.

All this family shit! Harry said. How can you reinvent your life if the original versions won't leave you alone?

My ideas are recycled.

My incarceration was actually a positive thing from the beginning. I needed a gimmick to get my act going again, it gave me material.

The secret conversations you hold in the privacy of your own mind are shaping your destiny, little by little. With every thought that races through your mind, you are continually reinventing yourself and your future. Research indicates that the average person thinks approximately fifty thousand thoughts per day. This is either good or bad news because every thought moves you either toward your God-given potential or away from it. No thoughts are neutral.

The Machine will reinvent the fundamental architecture of computers to enable a quantum leap in performance and efficiency, while lowering costs over the long term and improving security.

Once you acquire the capacity to generate the power to make the impossible happen, it cannot be taken away from you. In fact, it increases over time. That is why executives and leaders must re-invent themselves before they can re-invent an organization, institution, or country effectively. Without the capacity to generate the power to make the impossible happen, how can they possibly succeed?

Until you have re-invented yourself to be personally free from the constraints and limitations of your own past (including your own past success), you will not have the power to deal effectively with what is at the source of resistance to change

You shift the way you are being by creating a new context from which to relate to reality.

What are you interested in accomplishing that requires you to reinvent yourself to accomplish it? What would you be committed to accomplishing—if only it were possible? What's worth accomplishing—so much so that it would be worth re-inventing your whole self?

Under the Re-Invention Paradigm, instead of your word fitting the world, you design your promise as a "world-to-word" fit. You have the world lined up, to fit the promise you have made.

To make yourself, it is also necessary to destroy yourself.

Among skilled workers, much value is placed on the ability to reinvent yourself, to align yourself with short-term corporate objectives, to be good at forgetting old skills and learning new ones, to be a networker and above all to live the dream of the firm you work for. These qualities, which would have attracted the word 'scab' in a Toronto print shop in 1890, are since the 1990s obligatory – if you want to stay in the core. For

Travel holds the magical possibility of reinvention: that you might find a place you love, to begin a new life and never go home.

The second concerns the dangerous event of change, whether it's our house, job, or behavior. Here, everything is stable, everyone behaves as expected. Please don't try to be different or suddenly reinvent yourself, because you'll be threatening our whole society. This country worked hard to reach its "finished" state; we don't want to go back to being "under renovation.

I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.

I am for an art of things lost or thrown away. . . I am for an art that one smokes like a cigarette. . . I am for an art that flutters like a flag.

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations.

I understand what it is to go through emotional trauma and retreat and go into the world of your imagination. I understand how art and music can be a place of safety in a world of reinvention.

Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it?

that none of their existing contacts could help them reinvent themselves. That the networks we rely on in a stable job are rarely the ones that lead us to something new and different.

Although this is the capital of the future, its inhabitants are nostalgic by nature. Every generation has its own notion of "old New York" and claims to be its rightful heir. The result is, of course, a perpetual reinvention of the past. And this, in consequence, means there are always new old New Yorkers.